Tas. 7404. 
VERONICA togantorpzs, 
Native of New Zealand. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINE®.—Tribe DIGITALER. 
Genus Veronica, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.) 
Veronica (Hebe) loganioides; fruticulus humilis, basi decumbens, dein 
erectus, ramis virgatis, cortice fuseo, ramulis pedunculisque laxe pilosis, 
foliis 4-} poll. longis laxe densiusve imbricatis patenti-recurvis ovatis 
acuminvatis crassiusculis carinatis viridibus integerrimis v. utrinque 
pauci-denticulatis, floribus in racemulis ad apices ramorum corymbose 
congestis dispositis oppositis brevissime pedicellatis, bracteis ovato- 
oblongis calycibus brevioribus glaberrimis, sepalis oblongis obtusis 
carinatis ciliolatis, corolla 3 in. diam. alba, tubo brevissimo, lobis ovato- 
rotundatis, filamentis mediocribus, antheris pallidis, ovario glaberrimo 
apice 2-lobo. 
V. loganioides, Armstr. in New Zeald. Country Journal, vol. iii. et in Trans. 
New Zeald, Instit. vol. xiii. (1881) 352, and p. 359, 
Veronica loganioides is described by its author as “a 
most singular plant, quite different in appearance from 
any known Veronica * * * the corolla seems to 
approach that of V. linifolia, but the aspect of the plant 
is more that of JV. tetragona, though the leaves are not 
connate at the base.” And he adds, “ until the fruit is 
obtained the position and relationship cannot be deter- 
mined.” Judging from the ovary, I think that it may be 
safely referred to the section Hebe, or the subgenus 
Korronika of Armstrong, which includes all the Hebes, 
except those with scale-like, appressed leaves, to which he 
has given the subgeneric name of Pseudo-Veronica. Its 
nearest affinity is probably with V. epacridea (‘‘ Handb. of 
N. Zeald. Flora,” p. 213), a prostrate, tortuous species, 
with uniform small leaves in opposite pairs, and free at 
the base; which species, however, differs widely, having 
broadly, obovate-oblong obtuse leaves, and a corolla with 
a long tube. Mr. Armstrong describes the corolla of 
V’. loganioides as white, with pink stripes; but in all the 
Marcu Ist, 1895, . 
